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The UCLA Programs in Medical Classics began in 1983. The lecture series is designed to bring together important medical writings and texts, clinical practice, basic research and humanistic scholarship. The programs explore in detail the scientific and clinical meaning of the text or topic, and its significance in the light of present-day medical practice. The topics embody the history of medicine, as well as the relation of medicine to broader cultural settings. |
| Medical Classics 1985-86 |
| Date: | n.d. |
| Program: | Albrecht von Haller (1708-177): Anatomist |
| Presenter: | Willem Luyendijk, M.D
Professor of Neurosurgery, emeritus, Leyden University, The Netherlands |
| Introduced by: | George S. Rousseau, Ph.D. Professor of English, UCLA |
| Description: | Banquet in Honor of Franklin D. Murphy, M.D.: Master of Ceremonies: Jacob Zeitlin |
| Date: | n.d. |
| Program: | At the Dawn of Modern Psychiatry: Vincenza Chiarugi’s ‘Della Pazzia’ |
| Presenter: | George Mora, M.D.
Medical Director, Astor Home for Children, Rhinebeck, NY; Research Affiliate, History of Medicine, Yale University |
| Introduced by: | Dora B. Weiner, Ph.D. Professor of the Medical Humanities, UCLA |
| Date: | n.d. |
| Program: | Li Shih-Chen (1518-1593) |
| Presenter: | Irwin Ziment, M.D.
Professor and Chief, Department of Medicine Olive View Medical Center, UCLA |
| Introduced by: | Richard C. Rudolph, Ph.D. Professor of East Asian Languages and Cultures, emeritus, UCLA |
| Date: | n.d. |
| Program: | Lusitanus et al.: Portuguese Jewish Medicine in the Renaissance |
| Presenter: | Boris Catz, M.D.
Assistant Professor of Endocrinology, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center |
| Introduced by: | Carroll B. Johnson, Ph.D. Professor of Spanish Literature, UCLA |
| Date: | n.d. |
| Program: | Medicine in the Bible |
| Presenter: | Peter J. Chopivsky, M.D.
Assistant Professor of family Medicine, UCLA |
| Introduced by: | Giorgio Bucellati, Ph.D. Professor of the Ancient Near East and of History |
| Date: | n.d. |
| Program: | Rudolf Virchow (1821-1902): From Cellular to Social Pathology |
| Presenter: | Lester Breslow, M.D., M.P.H.
Professor and Dean, emeritus, UCLA School of Public Health |
| Introduced by: | Robert G. Frank, Jr., Ph.D. Associate Professor of Medical History and History, UCLA. |
| Date: | n.d. |
| Program: | William Henry Welch (1850-1934) and the Revolution in American Medical Education |
| Presenter: | A. McGehee Harvey, M.D.
Distinguished Service Professor of Medicine, The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. |
| Introduced by: | Robert G. Frank, Jr., Ph.D. Associate Professor of Medical History and History, UCLA. |